Ivo’s Studio

Red sky in the morning, and a chaotic arrival to Brussels. Somehow I thought Chaussee de Mons ran parallel to …

Madrid rehearsals day 5 – casa de campo

Today was the last day of us together as the foursome rehearsing. Instead of going into the studio, we arose …

Madrid rehearsals day 4

Ballet first with Dasniya. In ropes. A pity no pictures of that. Something in the distraction of being tied up …

Madrid rehearsals day 2

From where I stay, it is a walk downhill across the south of the centre of Madrid, westwards to the …

madrid rehearsals day 1

Some photos from Monday – three each from my and Dasniya’s rehearsals after ballet in the morning with Michael… madrid …

It was quite a slow return

I slept much of the way, or rather failed to stave off falling awake. It must have been not pretty …

A day in Gent

A short pause for two days before the next project begins. Gala and I have been working together and in …

Brussels yoga + shibari last four days & photoshoot

The absence of writing since Wednesday should indicate how involved the workshop was. Yes, finished, on to more rope things. …

Brussels yoga + shibari third day

Teaching yoga for the first time in quite some while. It’s very different from doing, which is almost automatic, the …

200 years of Liszt and some pianos

There is a piano restorer in Uferhallen. Once a week or so the forecourt fills with many cars not from …

cartwheel again

I thought perhaps these were better separate from a Yoga+Bondage workshop. The last few days have been busy at nameless, …

cartwheel

It reminded me a little of China Miéville’s Handstand, except the pigeon was perhaps making a no-handed cartwheel. We have …

mein lesbisches auge 10

Some weeks ago, I was called upon to get an image ready for print with a half-hour, mid-night deadline; the …

us alone tied

The day before the last performance, we arranged to spend some time on the stage working on some suspensions and …

the tying before parsifal unties

I saw the first Act. Well, parts of it I’d not seem before, while loitering side-stage from shortly after Nietzsche …

parsi5000

Just after midday today, I took my 5000th photo with my Panasonic LX3. It’s not especially good, blurry, mid-action, looking …

parsifotos

Once we got into the theatre to rehearse, I decided to not show all the photos, and wait until Parsifal …

la monnaie

Strange I have no category for pain. Two days after feeling so comfortable hanging for half an hour, I find …

Wahnsinn… Oh! – Wut… Ach! Jammer!

(Mainly because supernaut has been discovered at Parsifal, so I can no longer entertain the fancy I’m writing for my …

the second act

Already almost 1am and still long before I find sleep. Today was another long one, with a running of the …

wherin tomas suspends dasniya, later much stupidity from gala and frances

We went in on Monday, the others enjoying a day off, to work on some rope stuff. Dasniya wanted to …

parc forest winter

A dusk walk in the leafless forest. parc forest – 1 parc forest – 2 parc forest – 3 parc …

some parsifal-ing

The rehearsal theatre is much bigger than most company’s performing theatres. Next door is another. Below others. A cafeteria on …

berlin to brussels … again …

Much packing, organising, turning off of fridge, plants watering, courier arriving, eating the remainders of the fridge. (and so on.) …

uferstrasse snow

It’s not the Gulf Stream collapsing. It’s not going to be the coldest winter in 1000 years. The North Atlantic …

grunewald … nordwärts vom nikolaisee

The S-Bahn detoured to Messe Sud, somewhere I’d never heard of before, then the ersatzverkehr bus dragged me the length …

grunewald again…

How did that happen? A month and hot a single hike or walk. I thought perhaps it had been two …

uferhallen at night

Apparently the fire department will come and take me down if I attempt to climb the chimney in Uferhallen. Well, …

uferhallen – autumn

A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …

grunewald

Schlachtensee, Krume Lanke and the lakes along the east side of Grunewald have been my favourite walks around Berlin since …

müggelsee by boat and foot

Today rising somewhat early and then via S-Bahn (und zwei abgefickte neo-faschisten), Ostkreuz, S-Bahn again to Friedrichshagen, a town outside …

grunewald schlachten see

Raining in steady endless sheets, grey and the faint sense of autumn already. While hiking around Vienna I thought I …

yoga + shibari brussels photos

Some photos from the workshop Dasniya taught in Brussels late-June/early-July. I’ve been meaning to put these up for a while, …

in café prückel again, above and below

Some pictures from yesterday, in-between writing some notes that may become my script. café prückel hans writing the drinking scene …

rehearsing in café prückel

Today in Café Prückel, in the cellar, in the theatre. Filming some of the performance and performing some of it …

sophiensäle wien

Blogging daily about Café Prückel I think I can say won’t be happening. Much busyness, running around, long days, inability …

brussels parc forest and others…

Ten days in Brussels, it passes quickly. Tomorrow returning to my other home. I haven’t written much about being here, …

return to blog

The last week has been chaotic. I came to Brussels slightly early – on Tuesday, to help with Dasniya’s Yoga …

arrive…

Around twenty minutes before the decent would reach its terminal conclusion, I fell asleep, the Airbus landing, front or side …

late spring painting of leaves for arrival of summer

He carries a large white bucket and three different brushes, two delicate tied on to poles, one short and fat. …

there is a chimney on the other side…

… but not so much sun this spring. A view from my window in Wedding, over the BVG workshops, now …

brussels train

A week in Brussels. Much reading, three new books, two finished. Much cooking also, Hans, Aunschka, Paea whom I’ve not …

lx3 v2.1 1:1

While I suffer with what I shall call VogelschweinSARSgrippe, and ponder whether I can arrive in as many cities as …

riding home at night

Many other photos to show, of shibari chrome sex robots, and a nach dienstschluss mit Katrin, whom I am designing …

leaving the brauerei

For the last nine months, I’ve been living in a beautiful, isolated small apartment, by virtue of being on a …

night and trees

I saw my darling Ivo perform last night at Halle. Sublimely brilliant and I shall attempt to write something on …

brauerei fast fertig

Soon I will have to leave my beloved hobo dachgeschoss. Eight months, surely one of the most beautiful homes in …

plants vs brauerei

Somehow I stumbled back onto a couple who inspired my greatly years ago when I first started computers and design …

nahe brauerei, sonnenblumen getötet

Playing with my camera yesterday during the rain, ah summer in Berlin would like to be tropical, but I miss …

a plant a brewery

Learning more of depth of field and finally moving into the full manual mode on my LX3. It has a …

brauerei, alex im hintergrund

More playing with my camera. I wondered why shooting at f/4 was leaving the background in wide-angle shots a bit …

today i learned about depth of field

(Inbetween learning about search engine optimisation, Google Analytics… other…) I have a book which is a basic introduction to DSLR …

brauerei in sonnenabschied

Playing with things like P and A and S, but not M. Unless M is movie. HD video from a …

first light

Something telescopes do… it feels like the appropriate description for the first photo I take with my camera. Of course …

ich habe eine kamera. es ist schwarz

panasonic lx3 black noir schwarz miscellanea plus box and 8gb sdhc card panasonic lx3 and lens cap pasm! hotshoe! 4:3 …

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